weather forecast

On "The Florida Roundup," Tom Hudson spoke with Florida Public Radio Emergency Network chief meteorologist Tim Miller about the federal government's role in weather forecasting and communicating dangers.

El Nino contributed to Florida's cool winter, La Nina to arrive by summer and could influence hurricane season.

Damaging wind gusts, heavy rain and stray tornadoes are possible from another round of thunderstorms expected to traverse Florida. The threat arises from a developing weather system that will dip into the Gulf Coast early Tuesday.

The National Weather Service teaches hundreds of people every year on how to identify specific weather events through its free storm spotting class.

The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season was the third most active on record, but Florida was largely spared significant impacts and the last two months of the season were strikingly quiet.

A strong cold front will sweep through the Sunshine State by midweek, bringing the coldest temperatures of the season with it.

The Climate Adaptation Center will host its Florida Climate Forecast Conference Friday Nov.19. Focusing on Florida’s west coast, the CAC will forecast what our climate could look like in 2030, 2040 and 2050.

Winter is typically the driest season of the year in Florida, and according to NOAA a drought may be developing this year due to the return of La Niña.

Sam rapidly intensified overnight and is forecast to become a major hurricane over the weekend. While models suggests Sam may stay out to sea, it is still too soon to credibly predict whether there will be impacts to Florida.

The remnant of what was once Hurricane Nicholas has dissipated over Louisiana, but the moisture out ahead of it remains and will contribute to wet conditions over a large portion of the state this weekend.

Nicholas is expected to bring up to 10 inches of rain — with isolated downpours of up to 20 inches — across portions of coastal Texas and southwest Louisiana through at least Tuesday.

Four systems in the tropical Atlantic basin were being monitored by the National Hurricane Center, but none of them are likely to be a threat to Florida in the next five to seven days.